No it's been around for a while, my dad was bullied a lot for it during the 80s and I was somewhat during late 00s early 10s. I think they mentioned south park a few times lol. I've even been taunted for it on the street ta couple times recently
A bit, yeah from what I saw at school and from what redheads have told me. Common digs about hair colour and I imagine that South Park episode didn't help.
Difficult for me to say cos I'm not a redhead of course. It also might be a bit different over here cos of course associations with red hair/Gaelic countries blurs the line between being nasty to redheads and the low level background racism always present against the Scottish and Irish.
You get teased as a kid and called a leprechaun but tbh it's just standard bullying. They would find something else to be mean about if you weren't a ginger. It's not like you face systemic discrimination or anything lol
lots of stuff under culture> discrimination. Most of it is pretty mild or anecdotal, but I thought this one was pretty interesting:
In September 2011, Cryos International, one of the world's largest sperm banks, announced that it would no longer accept donations from red-haired men due to low demand from women seeking artificial insemination.
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In Medieval Italy and Spain, red hair was associated with the heretical nature of Jews and their rejection of Jesus, and thus Judas Iscariot was commonly depicted as red-haired in Italian and Spanish art.
The medieval prejudice against red-hair may have derived from the Ancient biblical tradition, in relation to biblical figures such as Esau and King David. The Ancient historian Josephus would mistranslate the Hebrew Torah to describe the more positive figure of King David as 'golden haired', in contrast to the negative figure of Esau, even though the original Hebrew Torah implies that both King David and Esau had 'fiery red hair'.
There's a very stark gender divide where it's a bad look for men but extremely fetishized in women. I'm a pathetic simp for redheaded women, for example.
At the same time my brother looks a lot like me but ginger and he's definitely the better looking brother.
Just bullying, but it's not a systemic problem. If you're ginger but well socialised you'll take the digs at you in your stride. I like being a ginger personally - makes me stand out.
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I assume that some of the current TIA posters would have been in middle school when the anti-ginger episodes of South Park came out.
I can't recall getting bullied by anyone for it other than the sun, the eternal enemy.
No it's been around for a while, my dad was bullied a lot for it during the 80s and I was somewhat during late 00s early 10s. I think they mentioned south park a few times lol. I've even been taunted for it on the street ta couple times recently
A bit, yeah from what I saw at school and from what redheads have told me. Common digs about hair colour and I imagine that South Park episode didn't help.
Difficult for me to say cos I'm not a redhead of course. It also might be a bit different over here cos of course associations with red hair/Gaelic countries blurs the line between being nasty to redheads and the low level background racism always present against the Scottish and Irish.
You get teased as a kid and called a leprechaun but tbh it's just standard bullying. They would find something else to be mean about if you weren't a ginger. It's not like you face systemic discrimination or anything lol
lots of stuff under culture> discrimination. Most of it is pretty mild or anecdotal, but I thought this one was pretty interesting:
E: also -
There's a very stark gender divide where it's a bad look for men but extremely fetishized in women. I'm a pathetic simp for redheaded women, for example.
At the same time my brother looks a lot like me but ginger and he's definitely the better looking brother.
Just bullying, but it's not a systemic problem. If you're ginger but well socialised you'll take the digs at you in your stride. I like being a ginger personally - makes me stand out.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JewishAndNerdy